Friday, February 03, 2006

"Complication" by Erich Fried

(Translated from German by Stuart Hood)

To see you only once
then never again
must be easier
than to see you once more
and then never again

To see you once more
and then never again
must be easier
than to see you twice more
and then never again

To see you twice more
and then never again
must be easier than thrice more
and then never again

But I am stupid
and want to see you
often
before I can never see you
again.

3 comments:

tontoronton said...

very nice!

Wanderer Lady said...
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Wanderer Lady said...

hehe ... yeah. he's a great poet. grabeh ang pagka-in love ni fried kay catherine, yung asawa nya. binida sa amin ni hendrik, yung bagong officer ni mama, na friend namin.